Can't get consistent 60 fps?

slayerming2 on 7/2/2015 at 17:21

So I've played and beaten both thief 1 and thief 2. I used TFix and Tafferpatcher for the two games. I've a laptop with a gtx 780m and i7 4700hq, which isn't great, but still decent. I also run windows 8.1. So no matter what I try I just can't get a locked 60fps. Every few seconds the frame rate stutters, and can go as low as 24 before jumping straight back up to 60fps. In the mission Casing the joint and Masks in the Ballroom I actually get low frame rates.

So just wondering does anyone else have these problems and actually get a locked 60fps?

Yandros on 7/2/2015 at 18:50

Are you playing with any enhancement packs or mods of any kind?

Mofleaker on 7/2/2015 at 19:50

Try turning down anti-aliasing. NewDark defaults to 8x AA, which destroyed performance on my crappy laptop. Smooth as hell once I turned it off, but I'm sure you could get away with just 2x or 4x.

[]HP[]Hawkeye on 7/2/2015 at 21:42

The best advice I can give people is if you know how to do things manually don't use any of the so called "installers". Both installers have a tendency to change certain options of what new dark has enabled\disabled by default. Not to mention both installers do tend to cause certain technical problems if you know what I mean.

If you have the know how your better off doing a clean install of everything including DromEd and installing newdark on top of that plus any mods you may want. I highly recommend ep2 which in my opinion is the best mod ever made for T1\G and T2. Keeps things as close to original as possible.

If you need help installing things manually I did post some instructions in another thread which I will post a link to that thread. This should apply just as well here and should give you the frame rate your looking for.

(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144944) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144944

slayerming2 on 7/2/2015 at 23:49

Quote Posted by Mofleaker

Try turning down anti-aliasing. NewDark defaults to 8x AA, which destroyed performance on my crappy laptop. Smooth as hell once I turned it off, but I'm sure you could get away with just 2x or 4x.

Where do I actually go for that separate settings menu??

bassoferrol on 8/2/2015 at 02:30

Inside Thief main folder, look for file cam_ext. Open it with notepad and you'll see these lines:

; multisampling (anti-aliasing) level
; IMPORTANT: some integrated graphics HW may not work correctly with multisampling and you will be left with a
; black screen, if that happens disable this option again
multisampletype 8

the last line indicates that the game is running with an anti-aliasing of 8x

Change the value to 2 or 4 for anti-alisasing 2x or 4x respectively

If you don't want anti-aliasing jus use a semicolon just like this:

;multisampletype 8

voodoo47 on 8/2/2015 at 09:31

make sure you are running the game on the nvidia card (gpu control panel). also try to edit cam_ext.cfg and set framerate_cap to something right below 60 (59, maybe 58). see whether that makes things better (or worse).
[QUOTE='[]HP[]Hawkeye;2278514']The best advice I can give people is if you know how to do things manually don't use any of the so called "installers". Both installers have a tendency to change certain options of what new dark has enabled\disabled by default. Not to mention both installers do tend to cause certain technical problems if you know what I mean.

no we don't. looking forward to your detailed technical explanation.

slayerming2 on 8/2/2015 at 18:11

Quote Posted by bassoferrol

Okay thank you for the suggestion!

Edit: Sadly I tried it with both theif 1 and 2 and still occasionally get frame rates stutters to as low as 38.